bpv_634265 - GALLIENUS Tétradrachme
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Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 10
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : copper
Millesimal fineness : 20 ‰
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 10,56 g.
Rarity : R2
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Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Beau buste de Gallien. Joli revers inhabituel. Patine marron foncé
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Gallien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A*).
Obverse legend : AUT K P LIK GALLIHNOS SEB, (Autokratoros Kaisaros Publios Likinios Gallihnos Sebastos).
Obverse translation : (L'empereur Publius Licinius Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : L I.
Reverse description : Dans une couronne.
Reverse legend : DEKA/ETHRI/S KU/RIOS.
Reverse translation : (An 10).
Commentary
Type rare et recherché.
Historical background
GALLIENUS
(07/253-08 or 09/268)
Augustus
Gallien, the son of Valérien I, was born in 218. He was immediately associated by his father with power and was in charge of the West, while his father went to the East. He won a brilliant victory over the Germans and consolidated the Rheno-Danubian limes. After the capture of Valérien in the East, Gallien must face on all fronts. The empire breaks up. Gaul, Spain, Germania and Brittany secede with Postum who first eliminated Salonin, the son of Gallien. It is the usurpation of Macrianus and Quietus in the East. Gallien will spend the last eight years of his life trying to put the pieces of this empire back together. Finally, he was assassinated in September 268 under the walls of Milan while besieging Aureolus, the master of the Cavalry, who had revolted.
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